US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 9 for "Routing with traffic light information" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,019, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Routing with traffic light information" was invented by Chuan Li (Troy, Mich.), Vivek Vijaya Kumar (Shelby Township, Mich.), Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.) and Douglas C. Martin (Goodrich, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the route of a vehicle includes receiving, by a vehicle controller of a host vehicle, traffic-light data, map data, and vehicle-telemetry data. Further, the method includes identifying instances of chain waiting along the plurality of routes in the predetermined area using the traffic-light data and ...